Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not"

Robert Ludlum, Novelist

"A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted"

Matthew Barney, Artist

"Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you"

Malcolm Cowley, Critic

"This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism"

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Actress

"The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room"

Jonathan Frid, Actor

"My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in"

John Turturro, Actor

"For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity"

Jean Dubuffet, Artist

"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture"

James Wyatt, Architect

"I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot"

Matthew Modine, Actor

"The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain"

Mary Lynn Rajskub, Actress

"The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise"

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poet

"I don't like to intellectualize about my acting"

Genevieve Bujold, Actress

"Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power"

Fernand Leger, Artist

"I haven't been on the stage in a long time"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"The only thing I like about being an actress is acting"

Elizabeth Ashley, Actress

"I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old"

Claudia Christian, Actress

"A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it"

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Actress

"This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week"

Bill Irwin, Entertainer

"I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work, but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold, I actually still have it, just in another form"

Kit Williams, Author

"And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection, the more soul leaks out of art"

Kathy Mattea, Musician

"Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage"

Robert Englund, Actor

"The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent"

Pat Morita, Actor

"I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand"

William H. Hunt, Soldier

"Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality"

Victoria Jackson, Comedian

"As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail"

John Cassavetes, Actor

"There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time"

James H. Breasted, Archaeologist

"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint"

Tony Curtis, Actor

"Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography"

Stephen Sprouse, Designer

"I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things"

Stephen Sprouse, Designer

"I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation"

Sasha Alexander, Actress

"It's no secret that I love the Ultimate line"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!"

Nafisa Joseph, Model

"Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio I made them so you and I could walk in and around and among these sculptures"

George Segal, Actor

"When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy"

Leslie Easterbrook, Actress

"Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that it's completely unrelated to everything that came before"

Lydia Lunch, Musician

"I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image"

Leni Riefenstahl, Director

"Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art"

Peter Max, Artist

"Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects"

Nigel Dennis, Writer

"Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need"

Nigel Dennis, Writer

"I'm a huge poster collector"

Illeana Douglas, Actress

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